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Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)